Name: It's Our Day
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: There’s a secret beach that we go to once or twice a summer, tucked into a little-known cove on the Maine coast. We have a lobster-bake, cooked while the kids swim out to their island, reveling in the song of the waves, the kiss of the sun, the company of one another. Who could ask for more? It’s Our Day in the sun. It’s our day by the sea…

It's Our Day

from Sweet Insomnia by Harper Meader

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There’s a secret beach that we go to once or twice a summer, tucked into a little-known cove on the Maine coast. We have a lobster-bake, cooked while the kids swim out to their island, reveling in the song of the waves, the kiss of the sun, the company of one another. Who could ask for more? It’s Our Day in the sun. It’s our day by the sea…

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It’s Our Day
By Harper Meader
Partial capo on 2

We worship the sun, and we flirt with the waves,
Take it in turns keeping seagulls away,
The bravest among us go looking for caves,
And what we leave the tide sweeps away.

Cho: It’s our day in the sun,
It’s our day by the sea,
It’s our time to leave tracks in the sand,
It’s our eternity.

I heard a man say, one day’s not enough,
But that’s the root of his sorrow, oh,
By the end of day, the tide will call his bluff,
And someone else will be here tomorrow.

Chorus

If you bring a picnic, and I bring the wine,
The sailboats will dance for us out past the spray,
And just for a moment, it’s all yours and mine,
And no tide can take that away!

Chorus.

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from Sweet Insomnia, released November 18, 2014

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Harper Meader Sidney, Maine

Harper Meader lives in Maine with his inspiration, Honey, in their unique cordwood masonry hideaway, where, when he's not writing new music for guitar and folk harp, he's pursuing numerous creative interests like scrimshaw jewelry, brewing mead, and writing poetry and fiction. Family, love, and the Land-spirits put a guitar on his knee and a pencil in his hand at every turn. ... more

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